News release - 19.05.14 Contact Symon Hill (07920 037 719) or Andrew Dey (07722 999 015) Construction work at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Burghfield, Berkshire is still disrupted as the result of action by peaceful critics of nuclear weapons. Eight people blocked the main construction gate to the site for four hours this morning. The eight people, aged between 19 and 40, arrived at the gate at 7.20am and locked themselves together. Police…
PRESS RELEASE 8 February 2014 ActionAWE/Angie Zelter 0745-658-8943 or Andrew Dey 0772 299 9015 or [email protected] ACTION AWE “CRIMESTOPPERS” REPORT ATOMIC WEAPONS ESTABLISHMENT FOR PREPARING TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY Reading, Berkshire, 8 February 2014:- A line of 50 people queued around the block at Reading Police Station as one by one they reported their concerns that the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) nuclear bomb factories in Aldermaston and Burghfield were engaged…
NEWS RELEASE 6th February 2014 ActionAWE: 0845-4588-367 Angie Zelter 0745-658-8943 or [email protected] Concerned citizens will converge on Reading Police Station on Saturday 8 February to report on crimes being committed at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) nuclear bomb factories in Aldermaston and Burghfield, Berkshire. In conjunction with Action AWE (Atomic Weapons Eradication), they will call on the police to arrest government and AWE officials responsible for nuclear warhead production and deployment, which facilitate…
A lively group of singers will serenade shoppers in the busy Market Square this Saturday. They have come together from several choirs in London, Reading, Oxford and Cardiff and their aim is to make people more aware of the issues around the upcoming decision whether or not to replace Trident, Britain’s nuclear “deterrent”. The submarines are stationed at Faslane, in south west Scotland, but are manufactured, assembled and maintained nearby at Aldermaston and Burghfield.…
Press Release About 30 activists from across Wales are currently blockading the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield. They have been there since from 7am this morning. Campaigners will be calling for Trident to be scrapped and plans to replace it to be abandoned. The activists - from areas including Knighton, Cardiff, Builth and Swansea are accompanied by 3 huge red dragons and are ‘locked on’ with chains across the main entrance. Interviews with those blockading…
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Welsh dragons are preparing to converge on AWE Burghfield at 7a.m. on Thursday 3rd October. They are determined to draw public attention to the UK’s illegal weapons of mass destruction. “We have to do what we preach” said one dragon, “It is no good asking the rest of the world community to stop using weapons of mass destruction if we continue to deploy them.” This colourful gathering of dragons will attempt…
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) Welsh Dragon to Roar its Protest at County Hall A giant Welsh Dragon will be accompanied by the Dragonistas, all members of Knighton Action for Peace and Justice, when it presents its concerns to Powys County Council on Friday at 3 p.m. The fiery, poetic dragon has eloquently embellished her large envelope in the following manner: ‘COUNCILLORS OF POWYS! Do not let them waste our precious gold on Trident. This…
At 2am on Sunday, 25 August 2013, more than 20 anti-nuclear campaigners set up camp at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Burghfield, Berkshire, for a fortnight of activities including a blockade of the nuclear bomb factory on 2 September. The campaigners arrived at 2am, and established the camp between The Mearings and the outer fence of AWE Burghfield on MoD land. The camp marks the beginning of two-week peaceful protest, which is organised by Trident…
Press Release………………Press Release……………….Press Release………………..Press Release Knitting for Nuclear Disarmament at the Clock Tower in Knighton from 10.30am on Saturday 17th August Once again, Knighton Action for Peace and Justice are knitting in support of WOOL AGAINST WEAPONS, a project of Action AWE. Their aim is to complete, by next August, a scarf 120 yards long which will stretch from Knighton Clock Tower to the Cenotaph. It will then be joined with lengths from towns…
Members and supporters of Action AWE will today at 5pm end their four day fast at the UK nuclear warhead factory AWE Burghfield in Berkshire, in commemoration of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US nuclear bombs in 1945. They have been fasting there since 6 August, the anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima, only drinking water. Julia Mercer, one of those taking part in the fast, says; “What struck me during those days…
“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”
– Ken Loach
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TRIDENT ON TRIAL
Nuclear weapons crime in the UK has been reported to Thames Valley Police.